kinda weird Bill, and not sure why this is happening. I am using a custom menu widget in header. seems like on any of the pages I created (in the dropdowns) are not working with this plugin, but the pages I imported from the theme's xml file are working with the plugin.
for instance...the pages from the "Layouts" dropdowns in the header custom menu are from the xml file. they work fine with plugin. but the "communities" pages I had manually created for the same menu and the accompanying dropdown pages I created do not work with the plugin.

not sure if this would have anything to do with it...but I had renamed the theme, and the css classes that had the .magazine class to .cogent.
Also changed to this in functions file:
define( 'CHILD_THEME_NAME', 'Results Theme' );
define( 'CHILD_THEME_URL', 'http://www.cogentred.com/themes/results' );

Here is a link to the test site I am working with...site
Thanks for any insight!